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Ursula Le Guin’s Use Of The Psychomyth
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In the story "The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas" Ursula Le Guin used a child as a psychomyth. The use of a child is a very potent choice because of a child’s innocence, and how we value it as adults. This scapegoat is being used not just to keep the town good and pure, but, more symbolically ....
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....the time we do nothing. Instead, we ignore them and go on with our own busy, happy lives, leaving them alone in the world.
Although the society of Omelas is aware of the child’s existence, most of them believe that by keeping the child incarcerated, they will keep themselves uncorrupted. By burying the disgust of the child and his room in their minds, they can live happy and lighthearted, without the distress that we live with in our own cities and towns. By suppressing the wrongs of the world.... |
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